John Whalen-Bridge

Tibet on Fire (eBook, PDF)

Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Using Kenneth Burke's concept of dramatism as a way of exploring multiple motivations in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan self-immolation movement of 2011-2015. The volume asserts that the self-immolation act is an affirmation of Tibetan identity in the face of cultural genocide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137370358
• Artikelnr.: 44170036

Autorenporträt

John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at National University of Singapore

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction: The Tibetan Situation Tibet as Rhetorical
Situation Politics, Performance, and Drama Argument and Identification 2.
Before Self-Immolation: Western Media and Tibetan Protests, 2008 Charm
Offensive: Angry Monks in the Western Press Buddhist Anger as an
Anti-Colonial Tradition China Syndrome: The Global Suppression of Tibetan
Voices 3. Irreversible Speech Running on Fire: The Act Itself and the
Creation of an Image New Media and the Great Firewall of China:
Distributing the Act Censorship and Self-Immolation Spreading Like Fire:
Act and Agency 4. Making a Scene: Actor, Time, and Place Pointillism and
the Paradigmatic Tibetan Self-Immolator Selecting an Origin: How The List
Positions the Actor PRC Responses: Lunatics, Puppets, Murderers, and
Terrorists 5. Purpose: Politics, Buddhism, and Tibetan Survival Hijacking
Religion and Justifying Murder What Self-Immolators Say: Statements of
Purpose Democracy, Division, and Dharamsala Dilemmas Tibetan
Self-Immolation as Response to Genocide Blood on His Hands? The Dalai
Lama's Dilemma Emptiness Also Is Form: Buddhism and Necessary Worldliness
6. External Affairs: The Globalization of China's War on Tibet Soft Power
in a Hard World Standing for Something: Solzhenitsyn and the Endtimes of
Human Rights Silencing the Dalai Lama: Signs of China's Global War on Free
Speech 7. Conclusion: Tibet's Next Incarnation

Rezensionen

"Aside from its particular focus on performances and rhetoric-which may interest those already familiar with the self-immolations-Tibet on Fire also serves as a general introduction to the Tibetan self-immolation phenomenon, and provides comprehensive, introductory-level background on Tiber-China history, Tibetan Buddhism, and international politics vis-à-vis the Tibet-China conflict. Tibet on Fire may thus also be of interest to those seeking a general introduction to the self-immolations themselves as well as the Tibet-China conflict in general." (Benjamin Wood, Journal of Global Buddhism, Vol. 17, 2016)